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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

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[image: a-new-twist-on-teaching-economics] Greg Caskey is a social sciences teacher at Delaware Military Academy who has developed an innovative way of teaching the principles of economics — a curriculum that he calls "HipHoponomics," in which he uses original rap music as the basis for his lesson plans.

Three employees from Grace College & Seminary were fired after a photo of them posing as “rappers” with a fake album cover background went viral earlier this month amid allegations of White privilege and cultural appropriation.

Arguing that the K-12 education model of the 20th century is outdated, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he believes it’s time to expand the public school system into a pre-kindergarten to college model.

*New York Times:* *State Dept. Lashes Out at Gulf Countries Over Qatar Embargo* WASHINGTON — The State Department on Tuesday issued a blistering critique of Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries for enforcing a two-week embargo against Qatar without giving the tiny country any specific ways to resolve a crisis over accusations of Qatar’s funding of terrorism. The statement seemed to put President Trump and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson further at odds about who is to blame for the dispute, which threatens a host of American diplomatic and security priorities in the g...more »

Yesterday Randy Bryce, the woke iron worker, union and veterans activist, former Bernie delegate (and Hillary elector) announced his candidacy for the seat Paul Ryan holds in southeast Wisconsin. We dedicated the whole day to it; it’s that important. We were unable to comment on two other new candidates though-- one, literally the worst possible Nebraska “Democrat” you could ever conjure up and the other, a great first time candidate is New Jersey. The first is an old reject, conservative former Republican legislator, Brad Ashford, who joined the Blue Dogs, served one term in Cong...more »

*Kris Osborn* *Security, * The Air Force is already upgrading the historic, 1960s-era bomber with new radios, avionics and weapons capability. *Known for massive bombing missions during the Vietnam War, the 159-foot long B-52s have in recent years been operating over Afghanistan in support of military actions there from a base in Guam.* *The B-52 also served in Operation Desert Storm, Air Force statements said. “B-52s struck wide-area troop concentrations, fixed installations and bunkers, and decimated the morale of Iraq's Republican Guard,” an Air Force statement said.* *In 2...more »

*Russ Read* *Security, * All for show? Iran’s missile strike on the Islamic State on Sunday appears to have been a massive failure, after it only two of the seven missiles fired actually hit their targets. Two of the Zolfaqar short-range missiles missed their targets in Syria by several miles, while three others did not even make it out of Iraqi airspace, according to Haaretz. Despite the apparent failures, Iranian state-affiliated media heralded the attacks as a success, referring to them as a “new and major” stage in the country’s fight against ISIS. The strike was “a great ... more »

*Kris Osborn* *Security, * Unlike the first two of 11-planned America-Class Amphibs built with an aviation focus without a well-deck, LHA 8 will be built to accommodate both air and surface amphibious assault missions. The Navy is acquiring early materials, working on systems engineering and starting detailed design work for a new America-Class Amphibious Assault ship which re-introduces “well-deck” surface attack technology to prepare the service for future amphibious warfare. Construction of the ship, LHA 8 (Bougainville), is scheduled to commence in late 2018 with delivery pl...more »

Several residents have reportedly been taken hostage and used as human shields after armed terrorists stormed a village in the Cotabato province of the Philippines, according to local police. Government troops are now engaging members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) after the terrorists overran the village of Malagakit, located just outside of Pigcawayan […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 A.M.) – The month of June has been rough for the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria, as they have lost large chunks of territory to the Syrian, Iraqi, and Kurdish armed forces. Northern Syria: While the Iraqi Armed Forces conclude their operations in Mosul, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, said that US will be working “diplomatically and militarily in the coming hours to re-establish deconfliction” with Russia in Syria, speaking in Washington DC, Monday. His comments come after the US-led coalition’s reported downing of a Syrian government warplane in southern Syria. Dunford stated that […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(TASS) Efforts towards a political settlement of the Syrian crisis should be combined with the fight against the terrorist group Islamic State (outlawed in Russia), French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. “Parallel with the fight against Islamic State, it is necessary to look for […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*CBS News*: *Top 5 takeaways from S. Korean president's interview with Norah O'Donnell* North Korea will be at the top of the agenda next week when President Trump welcomes new South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a White House summit. In his first one-on-one interview since being elected, President Moon spoke to "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell and promised historic change. Here are the top takeaways from the interview: *Read more* .... *Update:* South Korea’s new president: ‘Trump and I have a common goal’ -- Washington Post *WNU Editor: *South Korean President M...more »

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Tuesday she plans to appoint Dr. Arthur Wayne Johnson — a longtime financial services industry executive who recently wrote a dissertation on private student loan debt — as chief operating officer of Federal Student Aid, or FSA. “Wayne is the right person to modernize FSA for the 21st […]

By Dr. Mercola Over the course of your lifetime, you’ll produce 10,000 gallons of spit that your body uses to initiate digestion, neutralize acid in your mouth and help fight germs that produce bad breath. If you floss each day, you’ll go through approximately 5 miles of floss over your lifetime and will use 20 gallons

Well, there you go: Jon Ossoff lost. Here was Dave Wasserman of FiveThirtyEight not long before the race was called, on the site's live blog of today's two House special elections: It’s ... legitimately possible that South Carolina’s result could wind up closer than Georgia’s, which would be astounding. Here was Wasserman about an half hour before that: If [Democrat Archie] Parnell loses South Carolina by 4 or 5 points, lots of Democratic activists will point fingers at the party’s hierarchy for not getting more involved.... But it’s possible that Parnell is doing well tonight *be...more »

Published on Jun 19, 2017 On this episode of The Geopolitical Report, we uncover Salman Abedi’s, the Manchester suicide bomber, link to British intelligence. MI5 explains that it missed warnings on Abedi despite one sent by the FBI. This is part of a larger pattern. Since the 1990s, the British government has given jihadi terrorists […]

Deep State Operatives Attempt A Coup d’état Of Donald Trump by Mac Slavo, June 18th, 2017, SHTFplan.com Presidential historian and author Doug Wead claims that the deep state, which has successfully overthrown the governments of foreign countries, is going to continue to actively seek a coup d’etat of the duly elected president of the United States. – […]

Jewish Settlers Taunt Palestinian Girl, 16, as She Lies Dying in Road in Occupation by http://mondoweiss.net/ Palestinian girl laid to rest in her hometown days after being shot by Israeli forces JENIN (Ma‘an) 3 June — Two days after Israeli forces fatally shot 16-year-old Nuf Uqab Abd al-Jabar Infiaat, the girl was laid to rest Saturday […]

CNN Caught Faking News Again: Qatar Says News Agency Hacking Linked To Middle East, Not Russia by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com A couple of weeks ago we expressed some level of ‘amazement’ at just how sophisticated, efficient and pervasive the ‘Russian hacking’ community had become after CNN reported that they had managed to hack into a […]

Published on Jun 20, 2017 The leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution says Americans cannot be trusted as they are sitting tight for an opportunity to hit. Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. The Leader said the Americans and their followers are against the independence, […]

Democracy Is A Front For Central Bank Rule by Paul Craig Roberts, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ Several years ago when the Federal Reserve had its Fed funds rate at zero to 25 basis points (one-quarter of one percent—0.25%), there was a great deal of talk, somehow presented as urgent, whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates. – […]

Published on Jun 20, 2017 The United States says it is working on deconfliction with Russia and pro-government forces in Syria, a day after Russia threatened it would target US-led coalition aircraft. Russia has also suspended a hotline intended to avoid collisions in Syrian airspace. On Sunday, the US-led coalition downed a Syrian jet in […]

After the ISIS War, a US-Russia Collision? by Patrick J. Buchanan, http://buchanan.org/blog/ Sunday, a Navy F-18 Hornet shot down a Syrian air force jet, an act of war against a nation with which Congress has never declared or authorized a war. Washington says the Syrian plane was bombing U.S.-backed rebels. Damascus says its plane was […]

US Gov’t Proves Love For ISIS As Bill To “Stop Arming Terrorists” Gets Only 13 Supporters by Matt Agorist, http://www.activistpost.com/ For the last several decades, the US government has openly funded, supported, and armed various terrorist networks throughout the world to forward an agenda of destabilization and proxy war. It is not a secret, nor a conspiracy […]

Are Central Banks Getting Ready to Crash the System Again? by Phoenix Capital, http://www.zerohedge.com/ While investors pile into Tech Stocks based on endless promotion from the financial media, the US economy is rolling over. Last week the NY Fed downgraded its economic forecast for 2Q17 to just 1.9%. Even worse, it is now forecasting 2017 total growth to […]

US Jet Shoots Down Syrian Army Drone In “Dangerous Escalation” by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com A US F-15E fighter jet shot down a Syrian regime drone on Monday near At Tanf, Syria, the third downing of a pro-regime aircraft this month, CNN reported. The downing of the drone comes a day after a US jet shot […]

*Washington Post:* *A majority of Russians don’t trust Putin to solve corruption. But they trust him to run the country.* MOSCOW — At a time when public anger over government corruption has led to Russia’s most widespread protests in years, fewer than half of Russians are confident in President Vladi­mir Putin’s efforts to rein in crooked officials, according to a survey released Tuesday. The survey, by the Washington-based Pew Research Center, finds Russians generally confident in their country’s direction, enthusiastic about Moscow’s growing say in world affairs and increasingly ...more »

*Anna Hunt* - This would likely put future CBD research in the hands of pharmaceutical companies. The post Proposed Law Threatens Industrial Hemp and Turns CBD Research Over to Big Pharma appeared first on Waking Times.

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * 13 more subs? The House Armed Services Committee’s Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee markup of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act will allow the United States Navy to enter into a multiyear buy for 13 *Virginia*-class attack submarines (SSNs) over the next five years. The subcommittee’s language stipulates that the Navy buy the nuclear-powered attack submarines at a rate of no less than two boats per year. Under the bill, the Congress would provide the Navy with advanced procurement authority to buy three submarines per year in 20...more »

*Dov S. Zakheim* *History, Europe* [image: Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, during Attlee's visit to the United States to discuss the Korean crisis, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall look on.] Neither patriotism nor pragmatism necessarily mark one out for greatness. John Bew, *Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee* (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. *CLEMENT ATTLEE* was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many of his c...more »

*Rob Givens* *Security, Middle East* [image: U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan.] Half a century later, there are still U.S. soldiers stationed in Europe, Japan and South Korea. Is Washington willing to do the same in Afghanistan? The September 11 terrorist attacks were initially equated with Pearl Harbor. After nearly sixteen years, rather than resembling World War II, America’s war in Afghanistan—its longest ever—may ...more »

*Ken Gude* *Security, Europe* It’s just as important to address as Islamic terror. The West has a problem with terrorism, but it’s in addition to the one you’re probably thinking. Almost a year to the day after Jo Cox, a British MP, was murdered by a far-right white supremacist. Yesterday, British Muslims outside their house of worship in London were targeted in a vehicle attack by a man who reportedly said, “I want to kill Muslims.” This latest incident of far-right inspired violence comes just weeks after two Americans were killed in Portland, Oregon for coming to the defense o...more »

“Cosmic clouds seem to form fantastic shapes in the central regions of emission nebula IC 1805. Of course, the clouds are sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from massive hot stars in the nebula's newborn star cluster, Melotte 15. About 1.5 million years young, the cluster stars are near the center of this colorful skyscape, along with dark dust clouds in silhouette. *Click image for larger size.* Dominated by emission from atomic hydrogen, the telescopic view spans about 30 light-years. But wider field images reveal that IC 1805's simpler, overall outline suggests its popular na...more »

*“The Wild Silence And The Wild Dark”* by Chet Raymo "It is probably obvious by now that I have been reading Yeats. So let me share one more poem, "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven": “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” There is a wonderfully sexy scene in “Frankie Starlight” where Anne Parillau...more »

*Calvin:* "Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?" *Hobbes: "*I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life." - Bill Watterson

X22 Report “We Can Pretend All We Want, The US Is In A Recession & Heading For The Big One” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4cc24jvT9E *Related followup report:* "We Are Headed To A Situation Where One Spark Could Cause World Wide Devastation" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WY0h0M3c8

The U.S. Capitol Building is pictured in Washington, February 27, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed *Washington Post:* *New sanctions on Russia and Iran hit House roadblock* A bipartisan bill extending financial sanctions on Russia and Iran and making it more difficult for President Trump to ease Russian sanctions has encountered a major procedural snag, threatening its quick passage into law and prompting Democrats to accuse House Republicans of protecting Trump. The sanctions bill, known as the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act, passed the Senate last week on a 98-to-2 vote. ...more »

*LISTEN NOW* NUCLEAR HOTSEAT #313 This Week’s Featured Interview: Desmond Doulatram of the Marshall Islands is Co-Founder of the NGO REACH-MI (Radiation Exposure Awareness Crusaders for Humanity – Marshall Islands). Desmond has seen the devastating effects of the testing of 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands within his own family. He is currently at the United Nations helping to showcase the little known side of history and humanity from the Pacific, and human rights abuses by colonial super powers.

Last year the most winnable Republican-held seat in Michigan was the 11th district, cut out of Oakland and Wayne counties northwest of Detroit and Dearborn. It carefully skirts Pontiac but stretches awkwardly from Troy and Birmingham in the east to Novi and Livonia to the west. Trump didn’t do as well as Romney did but he narrowly beat Hillary, 49.7% to 45.3% in the district. Although the incompetent and corrupt DCCC chose to waste millions of dollars in other districts, promoting Blue Dog conservatives with no chance to win, they steered clear of MI-11 where a progressive, Anil Ku...more »

U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster meet with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst *Washington Post*: *Trump calls Ukraine the thing Ukrainians hate the most* As President Trump greeted his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, on Tuesday at the White House, he made an unfortunate slip. “It's a great honor to be with President Poroshenko of the Ukraine,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “a place that we've all bee...more »

Courtesy of the LA Times: *Setting aside the "fact that [coal] is environmentally catastrophic," Oliver argued that Trump is less concerned with helping coal miners than in bolstering the coal industry -- two groups whose interests do not always align. With assistance from a giant talking squirrel, naturally, he focused on "the divide that can exist between a coal company’s interests and those of its workers." * *Oliver conceded that while coal jobs declined under President Obama, it was merely the continuation of a decades-long decline caused by a number of factors, including d...more »

The Atlantic as an article titled: How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration. In the article, it highlights the same tactics used corrupt climate science are also being used to corrupt the other social sciences. Here are just a few quotes: Flip Flopping on Critical Issues Due to Political Opportunity: Prominent liberals…routinely asserted that low-skilled … Continue reading "Academic Corruption; How Immigration and Climate Change are Related"

Reuters: *Trump meets Ukraine's president, U.S. adds to Russia sanctions* President Donald Trump met with Ukraine's president on Tuesday and expressed support for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine but said nothing about Russia's role, while the U.S. government added to sanctions over Moscow's actions. Trump sat down in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for talks on the same day the U.S. Treasury Department added two Russian officials and 36 other individuals and entities to its list of those facing sanctions over Moscow's activities i...more »

To the sound of chilling screams, dozens of Chaldeans and other Iraqis were detained by immigration agents on June 11 in Michigan. The post ICE Raids Against Iraqi Catholics Present Existential Problem For Refugees appeared first on Shadowproof.

[image: is-u-s-in-syria-to-fight-isis-or-assad] The Pentagon claims our mission in Syria is to defeat ISIS, but political analysts have observed that our primary mission is to topple the regime of Bashar al Assad.

Whirlwind advances of Syrian army send ISIS reeling and position Syrian army to recover all of central and eastern Syria from the Mediterranean to the Iraqi border. The post Huge advances by Syrian army transform Syrian war appeared first on The Duran.

Petro Poroshenko's visit to Donald Trump was called a 'drop in' by the White House. It was in reality, more like a 'drop out'. The post Ukrainian leader’s visit to Trump was an epic FAILURE appeared first on The Duran.

On June 18, 2017, the Trump administration made a grave mistake in downing a Syrian jet south of Tabqah, which follows a string of similar events in the months prior. Faced with the decision of having to vacate Syria and abandon the garrison stationed in al-Tanf near the Jordanian border, staying in al-Tanf despite waning […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(Sana’a, Yemen )- The Qatari authorities have asked members of the Yemeni embassy mission in Doha to leave the country within 48 hours. A Yemeni diplomatic source told Sputnik Arabic that the Qatari authorities informed the Yemeni diplomats to leave in a maximum of two days from the date of the meeting. Yemeni Foreign Ministry […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Soldiers patrolling the station neutralized a man wearing a bomb belt a few moments ago. The station and the city’s main square, La Grand Place, were evacuated. Belgian police tells AMN the “situation is under control” Updates to follow. Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, said that US will be working “diplomatically and militarily in the coming hours to re-establish deconfliction” with Russia in Syria, speaking in Washington DC, Monday. His comments come after the US-led coalition’s reported downing of a Syrian government warplane in southern Syria. Dunford stated that […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting with top military officials at the Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 22, 2016. (photo by Sputnik/Kremlin/Alexei Nikolskyi) *Uri Friedman, The Atlantic:* *What Is Putin Up To in Syria?* *Russia and the U.S. are coming into conflict, even as they claim to be fighting the same enemy.* At home the American president is beset by questions about his ties with Russia. But in Syria, U.S.-Russian ties are unraveling. On Monday, after a U.S. fighter jet shot d...more »

* "Emotional Planning: The Key To A Great Day"* by AdvancedLifeSkills.com "Before you went to sleep last night, you probably had a pretty good idea of what you were planning to do when you woke up. Did you do a little mental review of the next day’s activities? Because most of us have some kind of schedule that we try to keep it is perfectly natural to give those activities some thought ahead of time. But let me ask you this: did you also give some thought to how you’re going to feel when you woke up this morning? It is one thing to consider what we are going to do, but it’s quite...more »

Courtesy of Politico: *So does Stein, with the benefit of hindsight, have any regrets? “I don’t think so,” she tells me by phone from her home in Lexington, Massachusetts. Decrying “fake news,” citing the “sabotage of Bernie Sanders” and talking up the “tremendous” campaign she could have run with more money, Stein is projecting a Trump-worthy level of defiance. “I consider it a great honor that the party and our prior campaign for president is suddenly being attacked outside of an election season,” she says. * *Those attacks aren’t merely sour grapes from a party still reeling fr...more »

Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump is a neoliberal (erroneously also called a “conservative”), which he has not been in the past. In fact, before he became a Republican presidential candidate, […]

This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Aditya Chakrabortty describes the Grenfell Tower fire as nothing less than social murder of the UK's poor: Austerity is at the heart of the Grenfell story. Think of the firefighters, who have seen stations closed and colleagues laid off by May, when she was home secretary. Consider the nurses treating the dying and the maimed, who will be on lower pay now than they were in 2009. Most of all, remember this: the cuts made since 2010 were the poor picking up the tab for the venality of rich bankers. The two are jammed up next to each other in ...more »

I love stories like this. Clint Blevins was in Daytona Beach, Florida when a storm rolled in. Thankfully, he grabbed his camera and was able to catch the most beautiful part of any gathering storm. Now, depending on how you feel about thunderstorms (they aren’t all bad) you might not be willing to do what Blevins did,

*Hunter Stires* *Homeland Security, * The Navy is taking “a hard look” at options to rehabilitate, modernize and recommission several of its retired ships. The U.S. Navy’s venerable Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate made a splash at the U.S. Naval War College’s Current Strategy Forum last week when Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson publicly acknowledged that his service is taking “a hard look” at options to rehabilitate, modernize and recommission seven or eight of its inventory of the now-retired ships. This news comes as the Navy is pushing to quickly grow to a 355-ship...more »

*Reuters:* *Belgian troops shoot 'terrorist' bomber in Brussels station* Belgian troops shot a suspected "terrorist" bomber in Brussels Central Station on Tuesday but there were no other casualties and the situation was brought under control after people were evacuated, officials said. Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt told reporters some three hours after the incident that a small blast was being treated as a" "terrorist attack. He said it was still unclear if the man was dead and his identity was still unknown. The suspect was still inside the station, he added. He declined t...more »

Nuclear provides the cleanest power, yet environmental groups will soon petition South Carolina regulators to shut down partially-completed reactors in an attempt to boost subsidies for inefficient wind and solar.

[image: trump-s-lawyer-president-s-tweets-misunderstood-he-is-not-under-investigation] Reports of President Trump being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for obstruction of justice appear to have been exaggerated. Or just plain false. According to Jay Sekulow, a member of the president's legal team, Trump “is not and has not been under investigation for obstruction.”

*Brendan D. Murphy* - Is there something more to consciousness than our present “scientific” paradigms would have us believe? The post Science and the Paranormal – The Question of Consciousness appeared first on Waking Times.

The former president called Republican Sen. Jeff Flake to give his best wishes to those targeted in the Virginia shooting, and also recorded a speech honoring musician Jay Z's induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Craig at isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk has a good piece http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/defining-terrorism.html today that includes this section: 'First, I want to commend this article by Melanie Phillips in The Times (£). Never mind terrorism or Brexit for a minute. Melanie has articulated a very urgent threat to the social cohesion that the State is so cack-handedly trying to maintain. "Class warriors are cynically fanning the flames. Left-wing agitators are planning a "day of rage" tomorrow in protest at the government's austerity policies, which they say caused t...more »

While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017 *Washington Post:* *Trump: China’s pressure on North Korea ‘has not worked out’* President Trump on Tuesday appeared to lose faith in China's ability to pressure North Korea to curb its abusive behavior, throwing into question how his administration plans to contain the rogue nation's growing nuclear threat. A day after American college student Otto Warmbier, who spent 17 months in captivit...more »

LYNCHBURG, Va. — The U.S. Office for Civil Rights is closing a Title IX investigation at Liberty University, saying it lacks jurisdiction over an off-campus sex assault allegation against a university employee. In a June 15 letter to university President Jerry Falwell Jr. obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, the office said it’s closing the […]

PHOENIX — The Arizona Court of Appeals says young immigrants granted deferred deportation status under a program started by former President Barack Obama are not eligible for lower in-state college tuition. Tuesday’s ruling says a judge’s 2015 decision that deferred action recipients were considered legally present in the U.S. and therefore qualify for state benefits […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — Former Portland State University President Wim Wiewel is moving across town to become president of Lewis & Clark College. Wiewel just wrapped up a nine-year run as president of Portland State. When announcing his decision to step down, he said he planned to take a sabbatical. It won’t be a long one […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Jewish students and local residents have sued San Francisco State University, saying administrators foster an anti-Semitic environment. The lawsuit filed Monday accuses school officials of encouraging hostility toward Jews. It cites several incidents, including the disruption by protesters of an April 2016 campus speech by the mayor of Jerusalem. […]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Retired Brown University President Ruth Simmons, the first African-American woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution, has been named interim president of Prairie View A&M University. The 71-year-old Simmons, who also was president at Massachusetts’ Smith College, the nation’s largest women’s university, and served in executive positions at […]

It was impossible to log on to *DWT* yesterday without knowing that woke iron worker and union activist Randy Bryce had announced his candidacy to bring new representation to southeast Wisconsin and oust the radical Republican Speaker of the House from Congress. The Democrats now have the ideal candidate to run against Paul Ryan. If you know anything of the history of the DCCC and this district, you’ll know they will not just do nothing to help, they are likely to work behind the curtains at their regular sabotage. Picture Pelosi and Hoyer, Crowley, Lujan and Wassermann Schultz, ...more »

*“Real Life Air America: * *CIA Exposed Running A Covert Drug Smuggling Airline”* By Rachel Blevins When you hear “Air America,” there is a good chance the 1990 movie starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. is the first thing that comes to mind. The plot revolves around two men who find themselves in the middle of the CIA’s private airline, which is used to deliver food, supplies, and even opium, to a small kingdom during the Vietnam War. But what if it was more than just a movie plot? According to the Central Intelligence Agency’s own website, Air America is in fact described ...more »

*“Syria: Another Step Toward A Devastating War”* by Paul Craig Roberts "An idiot American pilot shot down a Syrian fighter that was attacking ISIS, thus confirming that Washington is not fighting ISIS, as Washington claims, but is protecting ISIS, its agent sent to Syria by Obama and Hillary to overthrow the Syrian government. General Michael Flynn revealed on a TV interview that Obama and Hillary had, over his objection as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, made the “willful decision” to send ISIS to Syria. Washington’s pretense that Washington is fighting ISIS, rather t...more »

*Report from Sung-Hee Choi in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea:* The USS Dewey Aegis Destroyer (DDG-105) made entry into the Jeju navy base amid people's protest. Facing the three small kayaks [see yellow in photo] in protest to it, a Coast Guard ship was sent to stop the kayaks. Photographer Oum Mun-hee says, in the photos, you can see crews on the ship and even firing from the ship just before its entry to the port. According to the Yonhap News, there will be 'live-fire naval exercise' in southern waters near Jeju Island joined by the three nations of South Korea, ...more »

*Daily Mail:* *Suicide bomber yells 'Allahu Akbar' as he triggers an explosive vest at Brussels central station only to be gunned down and killed by soldiers* * A suspected suicide bomber has blown himself up in the Belgium capital’s Central Station tonight * Shots rang out soon after 9pm as police and soldiers moved in ‘to neutralise a suspect threatening civilians’ * Suspect was said to be wearing a rucksack packed with explosives around Belgium’s busiest railway station * The Grand Place, a popular tourist spot, was evacuated because of fears the man might not be acting alone ...more »

Comparisons between Nazi Germany and Trump´s U.S.-in-process abound these days. By Chellis Glendinning | The Rag Blog | June 21, 2017 CHUQUISACA, Bolivia — As befits the times, I have been studying Nikolaus Wachsmann´s KL: A History of the Nazi … finish reading Chellis Glendinning : Psychohistory in the Age of Trump

*Wiley Coyote and Road Runner* *taught me all I need to know* *about military strategies* Geopolitical writer Alexander Mercouris has a theory, expressed in today's The Duran, for why Russia is not reacting to the US shooting down of an Iranian drone in the same forceful way that Russia responded to the shooting down of the Syrian Jet. Here is a portion of his post: .....The Russians nonetheless are most unlikely to respond harshly to this incident, and the location explains why. Whereas the US shooting down of the Syrian SU-22 fighter near Rusafa was clearly intended to deter th...more »

*Jacob Heilbrunn* *Security, Middle East* Washington’s foreign policy was leading the country into war in Syria and Iraq. *Editor's Note**: In our latest Facebook Live interview (please like our **Facebook page** to see more of these events) **Anthony H. Cordesman**, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS, sat down with **Jacob Heilbrunn**, editor of the National Interest, to discuss American foreign policy in the Middle East and NATO. * Anthony H. Cordesman, the holder of the Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is well-known fo...more »

*Kai He* *Security, Asia* We know Kim Jong-un would be happy. Since South Korea decided to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in 2016, Sino–South Korean relations have been strained. Beijing has levied unofficial economic sanctions and diplomatic pressures on Seoul with the hope that it will withdraw THAAD. China strongly believes that the deployment of THAAD on the Peninsula will undermine its deterrence capabilities against outside powers — especially the United States. South Korean President Moon Jae-in in May 2017 ordered a probe i...more »

[image: undefined] The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major victory for free speech on Monday in striking down a provision of the Lanham Act that barred registration for “disparaging” trademarks. The decision came in *Matal v. Tam, *a case that we have been following. I have previously written about my disagreement with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision to rescind federal trademark protections for the Redskins as a racially disparaging name. As predicted, the ruling answered the question raised in the prior column in controversies like the denying of trademark protec...more »

[image: undefined] The shooting down of a Syrian fighter jet by US forces this week comes on the back of several aggressive actions by American military on the ground. Taken together the US actions mark an alarming escalation of intervention in the Syrian war – to the point where the Americans can be said to be now openly at war against Syria. The American military actions also come despite repeated warnings from Russia against such unilateral deployment of force. Following the shoot-down of the Syrian SU-22 fighter bomber this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced...more »

What does former NSA analyst turned whistleblower Edward Snowden have to tell us about liberty? About trading a little freedom for government promises of security? Does he feel that his historic release of government documents showing how the NSA spies on all of us, constantly, without a warrant, has had a positive effect on freedom? Tune in to this very special episode of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, where we speak to Snowden on these and so many more issues:

He speaks! Have you ever heard Jared Kushner's voice before? Here you go. pic.twitter.com/QKElf1bynn — Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 19, 2017 Uh...THAT is the voice of the guy who is in charge of fixing the government, solving the opioid epidemic, and bringing peace to the Middle East? Perhaps he would be more effective at those tasks if he did not sound like Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks. I was trying to remember where I heard that voice before, and then suddenly I remembered. Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy (@vanessabayer) stopped by Update last night to talk Passover. Full ...more »

Russia will not respond to the shooting down of the Iranian drone with the same strength it responded yesterday to the shooting down of the Syrian SU-22 provided the US remains in its base in al-Tanaf. The post Russia doesn’t care enough to respond to the US shooting down an Iranian drone. Here’s why. appeared first on The Duran.

[image: after-the-isis-war-a-us-russia-collision] We cannot allow our friends in the Middle East and Persian Gulf to play our hand for us, for it is all too often in their interests to have us come fight their wars, which are not necessarily our wars.

[image: otto-warmbier-died-of-oxygen-deprivation-not-botulism-as-claimed-by-his-torturers] The death by torture inflicted on Otto Warmbier by the pariah North Korean regime reflects on the depths of human depravity still extant in the world today.

[image: muslim-umbrella-group-ignoring-the-truth-in-london-mosque-attack] The Muslim Council of Britain has passionately and specifically condemend the attack of an individual mentally ill man on the mosque in Finsbury Park after issuing bland, cut-and-paste staements rife with trite clichés in the wake of three deadly Islamic terrorist attacks in as many months.

[image: planned-parenthood-annual-report-fewer-patients-more-abortions-higher-profits] Planned Parenthood's recently released annual report for last year shows that the abortion giant managed to do a booming business in dispatching pre-born babies while seeing fewer patients overall.

[image: judge-orders-cross-removed-as-pc-mania-continues-to-target-christianity] The latest assault on Christianity includes a federal judge’s ruling against a decades-old cross in a Pensacola, Florida, park.

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (9:45 P.M.) – Another video footage published today by Syrian Ministry of Defense demonstrates government forces’ military operation against the so-called “Islamic State” in eastern Homs countryside: As a result of the violent clashes, Syrian Army and allied paramilitary units managed to recapture Talilah reserve area and T3 Pumping station southeast of the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2017A tag line which captures the age:* Yay yay yay yay yay yay yay! Tonight, we get *real* excitement on cable! Tonight, we get to learn who won the Georgia race! Brian and Rachel are going to tell us. Yay yay yay yay yay! When a tribe is caught in a web of denial, it needs a new distraction each night. Regarding that trillion-dollar House race, it has now produced a tag line which perfectly captures the age. It's the tag line to that pitiful anti-Ossoff ad which may yet turn that race. (Or not.) You can watch that pitiful ad at this link. Kathy Griffin is t...more »

*Drang nach Osten reloaded, Mohammed edition* The story that attracted the greatest attention of the Czech readers today was an incredible interview (in German) with Ms Franziska "Ska" Keller, a co-chairwoman of the Greens in the European Parliament. The journalist was familiar with her proposal – which we haven't previously heard about. Even though Ms Keller later lied about the content of the interview and claimed that the media have misreported it, the relevant part of the interview speaks a clear language: Keller: ...The main problem is the lack of solidarity in between the mem...more »

*WNU Editor*: I always find these round-tables fascinating. But what I found fascinating about this round-table was the interaction between President Trump and these tech-CEOs .... he asked for their help, and they all showed up and they gave him nothing but praise for his work and efforts. If you believe in the current media narrative on the current state of chaos in the Trump administration .... this was a meeting that never happened. On a side note .... I asked two of my liberal friends in Silicon Valley .... including my very liberal brother who lives there .... on what was th...more »

We're being told that moderate Republicans are wary of the Senate health care bill: A key moderate Senate Republican says she's uncomfortable with the emerging Senate health care plan, which is likely to cap Medicaid spending and shift it to a lower growth rate in 2025. "I think that's a problem. I think that sort of defeats the purpose of keeping people on, and at a level at which the program can be sustained," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito told me this morning. "I don't look favorably on it, that's for sure." ... If Republicans lose the votes of moderates like Capito, it's hard to se...more »

*TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2017David Brooks asks, Where's the beef:* Did someone in or around the Trump campaign collude in some way with the Russians? We have no way of knowing. Does someone within the Russian government have some sort of leverage over Donald J. Trump? We can't answer that either, although it's certainly possible. We hope to see those questions answered. In truth, though, we're less interested in those questions than in a pair of larger political question: How have Democrats managed to lose so many elections in the past decade? Also, how did a person like Donald J. Tru...more »

You’ve no doubt heard about the upcoming cartoon reboot of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, entitled “Red Shoes,” but have you heard about the enormous controversy surrounding the film? Immediately after the marketing poster was released at the Cannes Film Festival, plus-size model Tess Holliday started a tweet storm, aimed at the movie’s star

There is virtually no part of our culture that is not borrowed from somewhere else. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 20, 2017 To paraphrase something the musicologist Charles Seeger once said (as reported by his … finish reading Lamar W. Hankins : American culture: Appropriated, revised, and invented

https://youtu.be/eyDI1tXJAJk Could Theresa May screw this up as well? Do Theresa May and the DUP really want to risk the hell of a Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Dianne Abbott led Labour minority government?

*Loren B. Thompson* *Security, * And why China and Russia would never want to face it in battle. This week's performance by the F-35 fighter at the Paris Air Show is a turning point for the world's most advanced multi-role fighter, demonstrating that even when fully loaded with combat gear, it can out-perform the tactical aircraft of every other country. Although prime contractor Lockheed Martin has always professed confidence F-35 would prove itself, a dwindling collection of critics continues to attack the plane citing outdated or simply erroneous arguments. The critics fail ...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * She might be old, but she can pack quite a punch. *This first appeared in September and is being reposted due to breaking events. * The United States has landed a Rockwell International B-1B Lancer strategic bomber on Osan Air Force Base in South Korea. The Pentagon intends for the temporary deployment to be a signal to North Korea that Washington stands ready to defend the Republic of Korea even as Pyongyang continues its nuclear sabre rattling. “The bond between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) is ironclad and the strength of tha...more »

Redneck Revolt recruits poor and working class white people away from reactionary politics with analyses of their class condition and white supremacy. The post Redneck Revolt Builds Anti-Racist, Anti-Capitalist Movement With Working Class Whites appeared first on Shadowproof.

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